Gareth Hughes is the Head of History and Head of Lower School at Pocklington School, near York. From 2011-2014 he served as Secondary Education Advisor to the learned body of the British Association for American Studies. He is a sometimes public speaker, conference host and education consultant. Alongside leading school and adult group tours to the battlefields and sites on the Western Front, he has led tours to Normandy, Moscow, St Petersburg, Washington D.C., New York, Alabama, Georgia, Paris, London and Munich. You might also find him, from time to time, serving up banal and trivial comments to the world on Twitter @thehistoryman.